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Bowers & Wilkins and Abbey Road Studios help celebrate five decades of British cool – and you can be there!

Bowers & Wilkins is attending Vintage at Goodwood, and would love for you to join us. Together with the world-famous Abbey Road Studios, we are representing the very best that Britain has to offer in terms of sound recording and reproduction. This innovative festival of... Read more

PRSF New Music Award – Have Your Say and win a Zeppelin Mini

The UK’s most ambitious music prize is the PRS for Music Foundation New Music Award which carries a £50,000 prize. This year, for the first time, they are opening the voting to the public. The voting will close on 5th September and the public vote... Read more

Classic Recordings: Massive Attack – Heligoland

Massive Attack – Heligoland Vinyl Factory/Virgin Vinyl By Paul Rigby Any new album by Massive Attack is worthy of note and Heligoland is no exception, not least for the additional personalities that always congregate. Amongst the luminaries on this release is Blur’s Damon Albarn, Elbow’s... Read more

Lovely film of Peter Gabriel covering Tom Waits

Peter Gabriel » Tom Waits from The Voice Project on Vimeo. Society of Sound Fellow Peter Gabriel covers his favourite Tom Waits song ‘In the Neighbourhood’ as part of The Voice Project Read more

Waldemar Bastos announces London date in September 2010

Society of Sound artist and the great voice of Portuguese Africa, Waldemar Bastos, will be performing as part the London African Festival at Bloomsbury Theatre on 21st September 2010. Read more

Rare footage of Edward Elgar conducting LSO at Abbey Road

Absolutely brilliant footage of Sir Edward Elgar conducting Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 with the London Symphony Orchestra at the opening of Abbey Road Studios on November 12th 1931. Read more

Accidental Powercut sessions – a true concert for one

The first of a series of three concerts commissioned to celebrate the launch of our P5 headphone took place last Thursday and was a unique occurence. The musicians performed acoustically in front of a rapt audience in the atmospheric surrounds of St Barnabas Chapel in... Read more

Bowers & Wilkins sponsor Accidental Powercut series of gigs.

To celebrate the launch of our P5 headphones we’re very proud to be sponsoring Accidental Powercut, a series of intimate, acoustic gigs in Soho’s atmospheric chapel, The House of St Barnabas. Each concert will be recorded binaurally. This means that the recordings will capture the... Read more

The World’s Largest Record Collection

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo. Read more

Classic Recordings: Motorhead – 1916

Motorhead – 1916 Pure Pleasure/WTG Records LP By Paul Rigby Motorhead has always managed to maintain an appreciable song-writing output. The only drawback with a largely high quality catalogue is that, when considering a band’s discography, the very best albums tend to be cherry picked... Read more